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Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I am not the Labour Party Whip, but I suggest to Senator Mullen that if he wants to debate the issue he raised he would have a perfect opportunity to do so if he joined the Labour Party and came to the conference. I raise a serious issue, which I discussed with the Cathaoirleach yesterday. A convicted murderer can come out of jail, having served a term, and share in or inherit the assets of...

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: The Senator should not refer to it if he does not want to.

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: He should not do something he does not want to do.

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I would not like the Senator to have to do something against his will.

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I applaud the Senator for admitting his Government made a mistake.

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: There are lots of Mooneys around, by all accounts. It is sometimes true that if one says something often enough, people will believe it. Contrary to what Senator Mooney suggested, we are not closing any schools. We are not closing any schools. We are not closing any schools. I have said it three times.

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: That equates to the number of times Senator Mooney referred to the closure of schools in his contribution. Perhaps we are level at the moment. Senator MacSharry wants to look at the books. His party had the books for 14 years. It wrecked this country. The Senator wants us to allow him to have another look at the books. It makes us laugh. When the late Séamus Brennan drew up a Green...

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: Senator Ó Clochartaigh is from Galway, although I am sure he was in Northern Ireland on a few occasions after he left the Labour Party.

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: The Sinn Féin Minister for Education in Northern Ireland, Mr. John O'Dowd, proclaimed that he wanted to close all schools in Northern Ireland with fewer than 500 pupils. Senator Ó Clochartaigh has come to the House today to tell us how to organise our educational system in the South of Ireland. I rest my case.

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I would like to ask the Minister of State two questions.

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I commend the Minister of State on his approach to the subject tonight. He has made a reasonable contribution, in the context of where we are. I welcome the decision to provide for an appeals process. This is an unprecedented year. I mentioned my involvement in Newtown Upper national school in Faugheen near Carrick-on-Suir. The school had the required numbers on 13 September last year...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I still have not mastered how to run one item into another, so I will just raise one item today, unlike-----

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: -----the previous speaker who managed to run three items together. He even interrupts me during my little item. I would like to raise a serious issue today that is causing problems in both rural and urban Ireland. This is the continuous theft of gold for sale. I have seen statistics from the Garda Síochána in my own area and in my region which show that robberies are being carried out...

Seanad: Food Wastage: Motion (15 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I, too, commend the Minister for his work to date. I was awestruck by his knowledge of his brief and ability to relay statistics to us. I support Senator Darragh O'Brien on the issue of horticulture. I come from south Tipperary, but literally in the next parish is Iverk Produce, probably the biggest vegetable producer in the country. I know from talking to many of the staff that they are...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: That is the fourth matter raised by the Senator.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I wish to clarify a matter for Senator Norris. The members of Dublin City Council had no role whatsoever in respect of the decision-----

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I do not believe Senator Byrne ever served as a local councillor so he probably knows nothing about the matter.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I wish to clarify that the members of Dublin City Council have no role in respect of the collection of waste.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: It was an executive function that was taken away from the elected representatives by the former Fianna Fáil Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Mr. Martin Cullen.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: It was a disgraceful act on the part of Mr. Cullen to take away the role of local councillors in respect of the collection of waste and we can now see-----